Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With Annotations, Volume 2Designed by Bruce Rogers. 1. 1820-1824 -- 2. 1824-1832 -- 3. 1833-1835 -- 4. 1836-1838 -- 5. 1838-1841 -- 6. 1841-1844 -- 7. 1845-1848 -- 8. 1849-1855 -- 9. 1856-1863 -- 10. 1864-1876. |
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... hands with Lucifer , than to commit the deed , and love the lust , and shake at the contumely of being over - good , and refuse to speak out all the time out of fear of being struck dead . cc [ BOOKS OF THE CENTURIES ] ( From " XVI ...
... hands with Lucifer , than to commit the deed , and love the lust , and shake at the contumely of being over - good , and refuse to speak out all the time out of fear of being struck dead . cc [ BOOKS OF THE CENTURIES ] ( From " XVI ...
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... hands of the people . It were well if short practical treatises on a hundred topics , all of primary importance , could make them prize what all the world covets . In the Capital of New England are many individuals who both serve and ...
... hands of the people . It were well if short practical treatises on a hundred topics , all of primary importance , could make them prize what all the world covets . In the Capital of New England are many individuals who both serve and ...
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... hand of my moral turn , and vent itself in anec- dotes of myself and my friends , living and dead , in this and every age . And that which I reckon my chief recommendation is the confidence my reader may entertain of finding me his ...
... hand of my moral turn , and vent itself in anec- dotes of myself and my friends , living and dead , in this and every age . And that which I reckon my chief recommendation is the confidence my reader may entertain of finding me his ...
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... hands and purity of its heart . I have generally found the gravest and most useful citizens are not the easiest provoked to swell the noise , though they may be punctual at the polls . And I have sometimes thought the elec- tion.
... hands and purity of its heart . I have generally found the gravest and most useful citizens are not the easiest provoked to swell the noise , though they may be punctual at the polls . And I have sometimes thought the elec- tion.
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... hands . I cannot help revolting from the double deity , gross Gothic offspring of some Genevan school . I suppose you'll think me so dazzled by a flam- beau that I can't see the sun when I say that the liberality of the age , though it ...
... hands . I cannot help revolting from the double deity , gross Gothic offspring of some Genevan school . I suppose you'll think me so dazzled by a flam- beau that I can't see the sun when I say that the liberality of the age , though it ...
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Page 259 - In every joy that crowns my days, In every pain I bear, My heart shall find delight in praise, Or seek relief in prayer.
Page 57 - Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul: and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here; so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows reason at religion's sight; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
Page 246 - To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel. My griefs cry louder than advertisement.
Page 49 - But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
Page 288 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 174 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
Page 347 - Knowing the heart of man is set to be The centre of this world, about the which These revolutions of disturbances Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate ; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress...
Page 428 - King's regard, Can give a bliss o'ermatching thine, A rustic Bard. " To give my counsels all in one, Thy tuneful flame still careful fan ; Preserve the dignity of Man, With soul erect ; And trust, the Universal Plan Will all protect. "And wear thou this...
Page 412 - Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se quam quod ridiculos homines facit. "Exeat...
Page 349 - Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things : wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties, and experience. My work is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of Nature ; it bears the name of Goethe.